Dodecad Ancestry Project

[Efim45]

Most likely fit is 14.7% (+- 8.8%) Mideast (various subcontinents)
and 79.5% (+- 8.5%) Mideast (all Caucasus Area)
which is 94.3% total Mideast
and 0.6% (+- 0.8%) Europe (various subcontinents)
and 5.1% (+- 1.0%) S. Asia (various subcontinents)

Goes to show that even if Assyrians can look European, they are not. Must be the same with Albanians.

[Sikeliot]

Goes to show that even if Assyrians can look European, they are not. Must be the same with Albanians.

Albanians are European (and if I had to guess, probably very similar genetically to Greeks but maybe slightly more Northern influence). Parts of their culture aren't.

[Ibericus]

The "Southern European" is basically a combination of Sardinian and Basque, is it not?

In the K=12 the basques and sardinians had their own clusters, but in the standard K=10 the Basques are about 60% South and 40% North

[Transhumanist]

Goes to show that even if Assyrians can look European, they are not.

Agreed.

[Agrippa]

Goes to show that even if Assyrians can look European, they are not. Must be the same with Albanians.

Even if going after phenotypes, we deal with frequency differences most of the time, but WHICH ONES!

I mean how many Syrians can pass as Europeans vs. how many Europeans looking typically Syrian?

There is an overlap, but the populations as a whole are obviously different and in the whole Eastern Mediterranean are more people which could pass as European, than vice versa.

Because European-like elements are wider spread in the Near East, than typical Near Eastern ones in Europe, that is crucial.

[Sikeliot]

Because European-like elements are wider spread in the Near East, than typical Near Eastern ones in Europe, that is crucial.

I agree. And even at that, it's not so much that these Near Easterners look typically European but rather that their phenotypes are part of the variability of some Southern European ethnicities. It's harder to find Europeans looking characteristically Near Eastern, unless you go to Malta of course.

[Ushtari]

Albanians are European (and if I had to guess, probably very similar genetically to Greeks but maybe slightly more Northern influence). Parts of their culture aren't.

Not really the right thread for it, but hey dont blame me! you brought it up!!

Care to explain that?

[Sikeliot]

Not really the right thread for it, but hey dont blame me! you brought it up!!

Care to explain that?

79.9% Muslim, 20.0% Christian.

[Ushtari]

79.9% Muslim, 20.0% Christian.

I dont understand what this have to do with our culture? How come you, as a Portuguese, who never have been in Albania or have read anything about our culture, make such conclusion?

[Sikeliot]

I wasn't the one to first say Albanians are not European. So don't take this up with me.